Creating picture from a video

Open the video in Photos. Use the controls in the control bar to advance the video to the frame that you want to capture. Then click on the little gear icon on the right side. In the pop up menu, click on Export Frame to Pictures. The frame will appear as a picture in the Pictures folder on your Mac.

-- Rich

Ah. Thanks Tony.

Just another reason why I have not updated. 😊

Can the video be played at all in the new version? If so, I suppose one could pause it and take a screen shot. Otherwise, I guess one could export the video, open it in VLC, and use its Snapshot feature to obtain a shot of the desired frame.

From all I have read and heard, I much prefer Photos 4 over 5 or 6.

-- Rich

In Photos 6 on Big Sur this should work:

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250003112

• Either make the frame we want the keyframe,
• or use the "Image > Edit with" command to edit the video clip in QuickTime Player and extract the still frame there.

The keyframe method might not be good because its resolution might well be inferior to the movie.

But the "Image > Edit with QuickTime" copy & paste to Preview and export as desired preserves all available resolution nicely.

Or instead QuickTime use GraphicConverter as the external editor with even more export options:

p.s. for (16-bit color) scans lossless .tif zip is my favorite archive format (zip with prediction it might produce smaller files).

https://havecamerawilltravel.com/photographer/tiff-image-compression/

https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/10906/which-tiff-image-compression-is-better-lzw-or-zip

You can use the 3rd party video player, VLC, to create a jpeg from any frame you stop the play on:

You can setup VLC so that it will be useable on videos from within the Photos library.

That facility no longer exists in later versions of MacOS. As far as I know there is currently no way to export a frame using the photos app.

It can be done by opening the video in iMovie.

Yup. There's always a way. Sometimes. 😊

-- Rich